The March 2022 issue of Collective Speaking focuses on the statement: It’s about choice. In this issue, USFA Chair Geraldine Balzer remarks on some of the foundational articles of our Collective Agreement and notes the challenge facing us is that each party to the Collective Agreement can choose how to live up to those contractual… Continue reading Collectively Speaking – March 2022 It’s About Choice
Tag: Collegial Decision-Making
2016 USFA Award Recipients
With pleasure, we announce the 2016 recipients of the Peter T. Millard Award, the USFA Academic Freedom Award and the Peter C. Dooley Legacy Award. The 2016 Peter Millard Award goes to Chris Adams from the Library. Chris has patiently and painstakingly served USFA members for a number of years. As an Executive Committee member… Continue reading 2016 USFA Award Recipients
Presidential Search Transparency v. The Value of Confidentiality in Searches
The USFA’s September e-Letter advocating transparency in the presidential search resulted in a few expressions of disagreement by faculty members. In the spirit of reasoned debate, we offer a lengthier explanation of the principles on which the e-Letter was based, along with an opposing argument by Dwight Newman, College of Law. Collectively Speaking: Presidential Search… Continue reading Presidential Search Transparency v. The Value of Confidentiality in Searches
The Mismatch: The Council and Our Fate! and Watch Us Shrink into Greatness
Important changes are facing all of us as members of the University. TransformUs, in particular, has been the lightning rod for critical comment by colleagues not only in the pages of VOX but in other print media. Nor should it surprise us that the “Dickeson model” guiding TransformUS has been rejected by universities and colleges… Continue reading The Mismatch: The Council and Our Fate! and Watch Us Shrink into Greatness
Open letter to the President of the University of Saskatchewan
Many people are concerned about the TransformUS process as a means of academic decision making at the University of Saskatchewan. The model on which TransformUS is based is being implemented, or being considered for implementation, at several Canadian Universities and many at those institutions are likewise concerned (http://ocufa.on.ca/wordpress/assets/Dickeson-Right-for-Ontario-Craig-Heron.pdf, http://www.academicmatters.ca/2014/01/doing-the-ppp-a-skeptical-perspective/). At the U of S the… Continue reading Open letter to the President of the University of Saskatchewan